Abstract
Introduction: Drowning is an important cause of unintentional childhood death. Pediatric submersion victims are often admitted to hospital for observation. We created a scoring tool to identify pediatric submersion victims at low risk for injury who do not require hospital admission after 8 hours of observation in the emergency department (ED). Methods: This was a single-center derivation and validation cross-sectional study of children aged 0-18 years who presented to a large, urban, tertiary-care, children’s hospital ED following a submersion event between the years 2008 to 2015. Pre-hospital, submersion characteristics …
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